Time to drop in some news about some literary journals with a local interest, which might also be good places for the writers among you to send your work.
Remember
Damazine, the online literary magazine for the Muslim world which was calling for submissions last year? Well the first issue
is now up for you to enjoy, and Shakeel Abedi has had one of his poems (entitled
Together) selected. Congrats!
You can submit your work for future issues, and the guidelines are
here.
Also accepting submissions is
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal based in Hong Kong. This new online literary journal is dedicated to publishing quality poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, photography, graphic fiction and reviews from and about Asia, and submissions are welcomed. Guidelines
here.
And then of course there is the
Asian Literary Review, published quarterly in paperback form. This one is Nury Vittachi's baby, and publishes work of a very high standard. Information about submissions is
here.
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS)
have their latest edition up with much good stuff in it, including
an interview with Malaysian playwright, Huzir Sulaiman. The site, which hit major technical problems last year,
as Toh Hsien Min explains, has now been upgraded. Submission guidelines are
here.
And finally, there's
Softblow, a Singapore-based poetry journal updated at the beginning of every month. More about it, and submission guidelines
in the editorial.
Literary journals like these are the lifeblood of a writing community, and we should feel a great debt of gratitude to all those who put time, effort and money to get such projects off the ground.
If you're wondering what happened to playwright Huzir Sulaiman's regular Sunday column in Starmag has got to, well, it has been spiked.
